Description
This is the late George Kahin's autobiographical account of his time in Southeast Asia
it is a personal account of key historical events: the Indonesian revolution, the McCarthy era, opposition to the Vitenam war (for which Kahin was imprisoned) and the invasion of Cambodia
The book is engagingly written and follows Kahin's life from the time he first went to Southeast Asia as a soldier to his death in 2000
The book addresses US policy towards Southeast Asia in this period, and came from Kahin's realisation that what he had experienced did not hold with what was historically presented as the facts of the case
As Washington again pushes itself into areas of the world about which it has little or no understanding, this book has a cautionary note and is very relevant
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Foreword by Walter LaFeber Introduction 1. The Indonesian Revolution 2. Communism and the Republic 3. The Dutch Attack on Yogyakarta 4. The Dutch transfer Sovereignty 5. McCarthy, Lattimore and Cochran 6. Return to Indonesia 7. Struggle over Malaysia 8. Cornell and the Coup 9. Opposition to the Vietnam War 10. Casualties and Pacification, 1966/67 11. Possibilities for Peace: 1971 12. North Vietnam, 1972 13. Cambodian Neutrality & the United States 14. Cambodia & the Vitenam War 15. Coup against Sihanouk 16. Invasion of Cambodia
